Crowdfunding makes real estate easily accessible, however, in regard to institutional/syndicated real estate investments, the advice of an expert who works in the industry every day, knows all the players and their track records, and performs due diligence on each offering is a great benefit to you and comes to you at no cost.

She will need to apply for all these benefits, but someone can help her.

There are benefits. 

Another added benefit to using a local lender is beginning to build a relationship.  

What would the benefit of putting any money down be if the VA loan allows me to put 0 down?

I do have an LLC formed and set up, and I guess I’m just a bit confused on the best way to go about setting things up in order to maximize tax benefits, right offs, and other things such as that.

That's a very satisfying result - we have also personally benefitted from the fantastic growth in Richmond. 

But the confluence between and ability to covert either way to your benefit is very powerful. 

What is the major benefit that would convince a private owner looking to sell to go with a cash buyer who could potentially give them less money than listing their house on any MLS? 

I'm just curious what the additional benefits are of using Quickbooks.